Medical Council of India (MCI) President Dr. Ketan Desai Arrested for Corruption

Medical Council of India president Dr Ketan Desai and two others were arrested late on Thursday for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs two crore (20 million rupees) to grant recognition to a medical college in Punjab.

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Healthcare Boom in India

A massive boom in private hospitals is changing the nations health delivery landscape beyond recognition. New hospitals are mushrooming, even in smaller towns, and leading healthcare entrepreneurs with deep pockets are expanding their empires, often overseas. The scent of big money is in the air. Its capturing the dreams of young entrepreneurs. Its making seasoned business leaders look for an edge in marketing healthcare in a new avatar. Its giving doctors the choice and option of moving from green to greener pastures

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INTEM 2010 venue changed from Mangalore to Ahmedabad

The International Conference in Emergency Medicine (INTEM 2010) hosted by the Society of Emergency Medicine India (SEMI), which was due to be held in the month of November 2010 at Manipal University, Mangalore, India, has been relocated to Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India.The Indian National Conferences in Emergency Medicine (EMCON) have been organized every year by SEMI since 1999. Every 4th year the conference has increased international presence and is known as INTEM.

Earlier, the responsibility for organising INTEM 2010 was taken up by Manipal University, Karnataka and the organising secretary was Dr. Madhusudan Upadhya, Head of Department of Anesthesia, Kasturba Medical College (Unit of Manipal University), Mangalore. According to SEMI, there were delays in conference organization, which would have prevented finalising all the activities in time. A meeting was conducted to relocate it immediately to the next eligible city, which was Ahmedabad. Ahmedabad was selected last year to host the EMCON in 2011.

INTEM 2010 will now be organised by LifeLine Foundation, Ahmedabad and Dr. Subroto Das, CEO for Lifeline Foundation, is the new organising secretary. The dates for the conference will be announced shortly.

Lifeline Foundation www.highwayrescue.org
EMS India www.emsindia.in

May 09 2010 UPDATE! Go to the official website www.intem2010.in

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INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR EMERGENCY MEDICINE (IFEM)
Model curriculum for medical student education in emergency medicine.

Abstract
There is a critical and growing need for emergency physicians and emergency medicine resources worldwide. To meet this need, physicians must be trained to deliver timesensitive interventions and life-saving emergency care. Currently, there is no internationally recognized, standard curriculum that defines the basic minimum standards for emergency medicine education.

To address this lack, the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM) convened a committee of international physicians, health professionals and other experts in emergency medicine and international emergency medicine development, to outline a curriculum for foundation training of medical students in emergency medicine.

This curriculum document represents the consensus of recommendations by this committee. The curriculum is designed with a focus on the basic minimum emergency medicine educational content that any medical school should be delivering to its students during their undergraduate years of training. It is designed, not to be prescriptive, but to assist educators and emergency medicine leadership in advancing physician education in basic emergency medicine content. The content would be relevant, not just for communities with mature emergency medicine systems, but also for developing nations or for nations seeking to expand emergency medicine within current educational structures.

We anticipate that there will be wide variability in how this curriculum is implemented and taught, reflecting the existing educational milieu, the resources available, and the goals of the institutions educational leadership.

For IFEM - Cherri Hobgood, Venkataraman Anantharaman, Glen Bandiera, Peter Cameron, Pinchas Halpern, C. James (Jim) Holliman, Nicholas Jouriles, Darren Kilroy, Terrence Mulligan, Andrew Singer.

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Position Paper from Emergency Medicine Australasia
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44 Deemed universities to be derecognised by Government.

The HRD ministry has decided to de-recognize as many as 44 deemed universities, both medical and non-medical, spelling uncertainty for nearly two lakh students who are enrolled with them.

This issue is of interest due to the fact that atleast 3 institutes that run MD(Emergency Medicine) postgraduate training programs are in the affected list. While there is no doubt that work will be underway to ensure that recognition status is restored, the students who have already enrolled and those who are planning to join will have an anxious wait till the problem is sorted out.

The HRD ministry emphasized that the affected students would be taken care of. The ministrys task force has recommended that institutions not found fit for deemed university status revert to status quo ante as an affiliated college of the state university of jurisdiction, so that students would be able to complete their ongoing courses and obtain degree from the affiliating university. Similarly, medical and dental colleges not found suitable can affiliate to state university or state medical university.

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1) Centre to derecognize 44 deemed universities - 18Jan2010
2) 44 deemed universities to be de-recognised by govt - 19Jan2010
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